My First Fast with God: The Scary Truth

Dry. Empty.Feeling distant from God. Praying with no answers. I Need an answer from God but it feels like my prayers hit a brick wall.Can you relate? I remember having that conversation with a friend in college (x years ago 😉 ) and I was shocked at her answer. When was the last time you added Fasting to prayer? The scary truth… I had never. This would be my first Fast with God.

I countered with distain and condemnation. It wasn’t Lent, I’m not Jewish and we live under the New Covenant. Who fasts nowadays?

My first Fast was Scary

By 2:00 PM I was spent. Pale and dizzy enough that people thought I was sick. Every hunger pain made me want to rip someone’s head off. And I still had 2 classes and a crazy test to study group to make it through before the day was over.

At 8 PM we all dutifully gathered back in the Chapel for a time of praise and worship where I literally slid to the floor. Filled with anger at my friend for talking me into this. I felt hungry and exhausted for the first time in my life.

Then the music began. I remember sitting in the floor with so many others (that is not a strange thing in a college Chapel) suddenly curling up into a ball rocking at the strange sensation that came over me.

I am not a hyper spiritual person. In fact I grew up believing the power of the Holy Spirit was a thing of the past – just for the time of the apostles. We could never sense His presence – I just knew it.

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So imagine my surprise as I had a vision of being rocked in the arms of God the Father.

As I sat in tears feeling Him for the first time in a long time. He whispered

“I have not gone anywhere. Your prayers have not been ignored. I love you. You are cherished and protected. I will never leave you or Forsake you.”

We sat in Worship for close to an hour but I didn’t sing. Instead I sat soaking it all in, rocking in the arms of my Daddy. Seeing the faces of others who loved Him and were trying to live His way. Enthralled by the beauty of the Body of Christ.

When we left the chapel everyone seemed filled up, shiny and new. No one complained of hunger or sickness. Everyone talked about experiencing the Spirit in the room – in some way or another.

I didn’t feel hungry anymore. I felt like I was full again – maybe for the first time.

Isaiah 58:11“And the Lord will continually guide you,And satisfy your desire in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

I would love to say that this first experience started a regularly habit of Fasting but it didn’t.

That First experience was quickly rationalized away. I couldn’t talk about it to my friends and family back home without being called a heretic.

The craziness of life set in I forgot the power of Fasting. I forgot how close it drew me to God.

Tiffany of Hope Joy in Christ inspires Christian Women to grow in faith, live out Biblical Marriage Principles and raise Godly Children. Join the Wives Only Facebook Group here or keep up with her through Pinterest.

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Tiffany of Hope Joy in Christ inspires Christian Women to grow in faith, live out Biblical Marriage Principles and raise Godly Children. Join the Wives Only Facebook Group here or keep up with her through Pinterest.